Blu2 is an upsampling cd transport. The only sustainable demand for it is from people who play cds and have a DAVE. I don’t think demand for it is high at all, because very few people want an £8.5k cd transport, and the ones that do want it have bought it already. Nobody is switching to cds. The Blu2 will be being made in small quantities on a long lead time. There are M Scaler inputs on the Hugo2, Qutest and Hugo2TT. Virtually no one with any of these products has the money for an £8.5k upsampling cd transport. So, if a sensibly priced M Scaler had been announced at Munich Blu2 sales would be hardly affected, because imo they are already negligible. Most of the people who are going to buy one have done so. Of those, the ones that play cds should be quite content. But whoever pressured Chord to put a USB input on the Blu2 just so they could use it from a laptop has only themselves to blame if a stand-alone M Scaler comes out. They should have pressured Chord to release a stand alone M Scaler in the first place, rather than (somewhat hastily) add a USB input. Chord could have easily done so.